Vibrant Autumn Wedding at The Pavilion
One of my all-time favourite fall weddings: an amazing colour palette, one of my favourite venues, an incredible vendor team, and perfect autumn weather. Everything about Nicole and Rourke’s vibrant autumn wedding was beautiful.
One of my all-time favourite fall weddings: an amazing colour palette, one of my favourite venues, an incredible vendor team, and perfect autumn weather. Everything about Nicole and Rourke’s vibrant autumn wedding was beautiful.
Photos by Brittany Mahood
This palette — MAN. I know I say that a lot, but I just love colour. Nicole gave me a couple of inspiration photos, and then as with most of my designs, I started working on her proposal by creating their colour palette. Colour is such an important part of a design and I wanted to layer in warm tones with different varieties and shapes.
We definitely wanted to include corals and oranges, to which I added a rich berry tone, plum, and some softer caramel. It really sung “autumn but not trying too hard to be fall,” if that makes sense!
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: Caramel antique garden roses, pink dahlias, barista roses, mango mini calla lilies, chocolate cosmos, sahara sensation spray roses, golden ilex berries, olive foliage, and agonis foliage.
We’re going to need to talk briefly about how stunning Nicole’s dress and veil were. Handmade by Cathy Wiebe, I LOVE the soft colour that was worked in with hand-embroidery and beading. Cathy and I even collaborated a bit (like a TINY bit) as she incorporated some of the actual flowers I was using into her designs.
I love a good ground-based floral nest for your ceremony! Knowing that the wedding was in October and there wasn’t likely to be much colour still around (though I was astonished at how good the gardens at the Pavilion still looked!!), I was excited to be able to create a garden for Nicole and Rourke to say their vows in.
One of the benefits of pieces like this is that they can be relatively easily repurposed into your reception. This means you’re getting a stunning design for your ceremony, and then during your cocktail hour, your florist or planner will pick those pieces up and sneak them into your reception. We used them all at the seating chart for a major statement (scroll down to see more of that, which I LOVED) but we could also separate the pieces and use them at your bar, on your dessert table, as part of your tent entrance, or as table end-caps for banquet tables. Just be sure to discuss this with your floral designer, so that we can make sure to design them intentionally to fit both spaces where they’ll be used!
The design brief: minimalist tables allow for a maximalist ceiling installation.
Minimalist tabletops does not mean there was a lack of detail — rather, what we chose to incorporate was intentionally selected to create the character and ambiance desired, while allowing the ceiling installation to take centre stage.
Mixed centrepiece styles in a rich floral palette, all placed on a warm toffee toned linen created a really beautiful, elevated base for the entire space.
Three different centrepiece styles were featured. The round tables around the outside of the room featured a fuller, low floral arrangement in a modern compote vase, with a collection of low glass votives surrounding it. The smaller round tables in the “nook” (the window alcove area, which is a bit smaller so we usually use smaller tables in there) focused on bud vases (5 per table) with taper candles, and the long tables saw a simple collection of taper and votive candles lining the narrow length of the tables.
Lately I’ve been loving using lots of clear glass vessels — the candlelight sparkles off them so beautifully. You’ll see that here with all the stem vases and varied candleholders themselves. And the colours and textures of the flowers in these stem vases? GOOD. REALLY GOOD.
This is where having a designer on your vendor team comes into play. When Nicole explained that they would need to remove tables for their dance, I immediately knew what I wanted to do: focus on hanging greenery above the tables, and keep the tabletops minimal with just candles. This way, the ambiance would be amazing both for dinner and the dance (especially the dance, actually!!). Dancing beneath the canopy of vines in the dimmed light, without spending a lot of money on centrepieces on the table that would only be used for a portion of the evening.
I then worked really closely with Cam from Event Light (one of my top 15 Winnipeg wedding vendors you need to know!) to figure out how we were going to suspend this greenery canopy. We settled on his crew creating a system for us to attach our smilax vines to, without damaging the ceiling or hanging from something we weren’t allowed to! It worked amazingly and looked fantastic!
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Flowers are the best way to make a statement at your wedding. Whether you already have a specific vision or want me to dream up something custom just for you (like a greenery canopy hung above your dinner tables!), reach out to Stone House Creative for stunning bridal bouquets, truly unique ceremony backdrops, and beautiful floral centrepieces to create the perfect ambiance for your wedding!
Sweet Simplicity Spring Wedding at the Pavilion
Last May, I had the pleasure of designing two weddings at the Pavilion at Assiniboine Park. The first was kind of a modern take on a garden-inspired design, and the second was Gwen and Gavin’s simple, intimate, blush and peach wedding.
Gwen’s style is very feminine and romantic, and she wanted her ceremony arch to be the centrepiece of the floral design.
Last May, I had the pleasure of designing two weddings at the Pavilion at Assiniboine Park. The first was kind of a modern take on a garden-inspired design, and the second was Gwen and Gavin’s simple, intimate, blush and peach wedding.
Gwen’s style is very feminine and romantic, and she wanted her ceremony arch to be the centrepiece of the floral design.
Photos: Brittany Mahood Photography
It’s always good to keep a bride’s frame in mind — I knew that Gwen was petite with tiny hands, and we didn’t want anything too large. And when I gave her her bouquet, I was astonished because what looked so small in my hands looked full and large in hers!
Bridal bouquet ingredients: ranunculus, sweet pea, sweet escimo roses, freesia, baby’s breath, and sahara sensation spray roses.
Oh I loved designing this arch! I really like the deconstructed arch base — it’s so easy to do so many different designs on it. Gwen wanted a lot of baby’s breath and we went with a modern garden style, tucking in peach and light pink florals with lots of stem length.
With about 30 guests, the room had more than enough space to keep the ceremony and reception in the same room. The morning ceremony was followed by brunch, and we decided on 4 banquet tables set with Planned Perfectly’s toffee linen (see how nicely they can skew pink?) with gold chivari chairs. We decided on mixed pink, peach, and white florals with an airy feel. Sweet, simple, lovely!
Photos: Brittany Mahood ~ Venue: The Pavilion at Assiniboine Park ~ Video: KT Films ~ Linens and Chairs: Planned Perfectly
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A Chic Spring Wedding at the Assiniboine Park Pavilion
I wasn’t planning on working on Mother’s Day weekend. I had my baby about 5 months earlier and was looking forward to a relaxing Mother’s Day with my boys. Then Andrea from Soiree texted me, asking if I knew of any floral designers who were still available for that weekend. I felt myself starting to cave a little…so I asked about the style and vision for the wedding…and then I saw the design board…and heard that it was at the Pavilion…and before I knew it, I said “You twisted my arm, count me in!” and there it was.
Julia and Rob’s chic spring wedding at the Assiniboine Park Pavilion was officially on my calendar!
I wasn’t planning on working on Mother’s Day weekend. I had my baby about 5 months earlier and was looking forward to a relaxing Mother’s Day with my boys. Then Andrea from Soiree texted me, asking if I knew of any floral designers who were still available for that weekend. I felt myself starting to cave a little…so I asked about the style and vision for the wedding…and then I saw the design board…and heard that it was at the Pavilion…and before I knew it, I said “You twisted my arm, count me in!” and there it was.
Julia and Rob’s chic spring wedding at the Assiniboine Park Pavilion was officially on my calendar!
Photos: Brittany Mahood
I love this romantic colour palette — soft pink, moody mauves, crisp black — and it worked beautifully to create the modern, romantic vibes. And can we take a moment to take in her dress and headband combination? Dang.
Bridal Bouquet Ingredients: wabara garden rose, anemone, butterfly ranunculus, faith rose, sweet pea, and pieris.
I haven’t worked at the Pavilion in a few years so I was super excited to be here again! It was closed for a few years, then underwent a huge remodel, and then Covid happened so everything that was scheduled was cancelled or moved. The remodel that was done there is really beautiful — it’s always been one of my favourite spaces in the city with the amount of windows and natural light. In the summer, the terrace is stunning for ceremonies or cocktail hours, and it’s obviously in the park so there are plenty of perfect photo locations within walking distance.
I love this floor plan! The mix of round and banquet tables, the “head table nook” utilizing 3 round tables for the VIPs in the alcove, it all worked to create great movement throughout the room.
The focal point of the design was obviously the hanging florals above the head table! The colour palette, the shape, the inclusion of pussy willow branches…it was all just do great. I’d do it again any day 🥰
We also kept the centrepiece on this “head table” simpler, just focusing on black candles so the floating florals above could sing.
The floor plan situated round guest tables around the outsides of the room, which we styled with a lush floral arrangement with a duo of black taper candles. It felt both full and minimalist in a good way. Across the dance floor was a pair of long banquet table, which had cards placed on them advising guests that the tables would be removed for dancing — so smart! — and because the tables were being removed, we went simpler on the centrepieces here, using black taper and votive candles, and petite bud vases for just a bit of colour.
“I just want to let you know that you are KILLIN’ it in the floral game. And more importantly, you are a lovely human and just a joy to work with and be around. I am so honoured you agreed to be part of my special day. The flowers were the talk of the day and still are. I can’t tell you how many guests asked WHO did the flowers. So from a “consumer” point of view - you are pure magic! Correction* in all ways you are pure magic ❤️ ” - Julia
So now you can see why I left mat leave early! This was the perfect wedding to start my season off with and I’d just love to do it over and over and over again.
